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one fracture at age 79 80 the age of my parents you I think I'm going to get these numbers a bit wrong I'm sure but I think um Peter mentions that that leads to death in a large percentage of people that break that hip or break that leg or break that wrist even yes and the other thing that not because of the break itself but because the inactivity
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As you get older, you're going to fall over, right? Everyone falls over, especially as they get older. And if you break your hip, that's close to a death sentence.
he actually broke his hip which is an end-of-life injury for many many people
we don't want people to fall and break their hip because that that specific fall is pretty much a death sentence if you're over the age of 65
the data on elderly people who get a hip fracture and then it's an like spiral immediately downhill to death
So, if you're 90 years old or above and you're a man and you have a hip fracture in this data set, and we're going to talk about other data sets in a moment, 40% actually more than 40% of you will be dead within a year.
So, I think that the the important thing here from this data set, because we're going to look at another one in a second that I think is more stark. In this data set, what you realize is that for older people, people over the age of 85, people over the age of 80, which I would argue is not really that old. I mean, I think most of us, you know, listening to this podcast, if we're not that age, certainly have aspirations to be that age, your mortality is, you know, in the neighborhood of a third within a year after a hip fracture.
We're going to get into some data about what are the fractures that really end lives. And you're going to see it's primarily hip fractures. Uh a pelvic fracture, I think, is probably second.
So, I think that the the important thing here from this data set, because we're going to look at another one in a second that I think is more stark. In this data set, what you realize is that for older people, people over the age of 85, people over the age of 80, which I would argue is not really that old. I mean, I think most of us, you know, listening to this podcast, if we're not that age, certainly have aspirations to be that age, your mortality is, you know, in the neighborhood of a third within a year after a hip fracture.
So, you know, um, Nick, we're going to have Michael Easter on the podcast coming up soon, aren't we? Like, I think we're having, um, we're having Michael I mean, I know we do the interview next month, so that'll that'll that should come out soon, right? Yeah, so, so for those who aren't familiar with Michael's work, he wrote a book called The Comfort Crisis, which I'm going to say is probably, you know, one of the 10 books that I'll sort of force down most people's throats if given the chance.
If you're 90 years old or above and you're a man and you have a hip fracture in this data set, and we're going to talk about other data sets in a moment, 40% actually more than 40% of you will be dead within a year.